The quantity limitation of the premium phone, however, is now reported by Korean media to come naturally, as Samsung is simply not able to produce Super AMOLED displays with 1440x2560 pixels of resolution in meaningful quantities to satisfy the sales forecast of a blockbuster handset. Moreover, such a panel costs much more to produce than a QHD screen based on the LCD technology, which LG is said to be using for the G3.

Samsung Electronics was supposed to use a QHD display for its Galaxy S5, but it failed due to the high cost.

The yield and cost issues around the alleged 5.2" QHD AMOLED screen made it prohibitive to use for the Galaxy S5 itself, as it will likely be selling in the tens of millions, so Samsung decided to put it in a more upscale phone that is about to be released in June, reports the publication. "Samsung Electronics was supposed to use a QHD display for its Galaxy S5, but it failed due to the high cost. As the Galaxy S5 Prime will be rolled out in small quantities, it is highly likely that QHD will be adopted," the source claims, so LG might have a real competitor to the G3 very soon after its introduction.

I can tell you that the plastic on the S5 doesn't feel cheap at all, Samsung doesn't use glossy plastic anymore so don't judge the quality of the plastic as there are many kinds of plastic that feels good.

Thank you...everyone is jumping on the bandwagon about metal.. let's see how everyone is when you have signal loss...most ppl were happy with the galaxy phones until the One series came out..Sammy really just needs to move the speakers that's it..use the "quad surround" speakers like we've seen in those prototypes

I have been living with a metal phone (One) for almost a year now and never had a reception problem, hilariously as it might seem there were situations that my friend's phones would be out of signal and mine wasn't.

Are you really that spec hungry? We're all waiting for the Snapdragon 805, and you're the only one here that's going far away. Do you really need your phone to be super super super powerful? Why not get a gaming laptop if you want such specs?

One, the A7 is NOT ARM A15. It is closer to the A53, if you look at the micro architecture .

Two, none of the SD 800 Series processors are in the same league with the A7, and that includes SD 805. The iPhone 5S cannot reach the performance ceiling of the A7 because of memory restrictions, and it's ceiling is higher than anything on, or soon to be on, the market in 2014. Anand did a great article on it a couple of weeks ago.

Iphone5S doen not use A15 or A57... Don't you realize that what you just wrote doesn't make any sense?
E5422 will still use A15, and those are not far away from the Krait 400 on the Snapdragon 801/805. So you shouldn't care that much till they don't put some good dual core with A57 at least.
Cyclone is theoretically more powerfull than A57 though, if that's you standard.

Arte is obviously that "TROLL" guy that most of the resident posters of this site will remember.

Only he can be that dumb to still go on with the same retarded story even after all this time.

Supposedly know the difference between the Krait, A9 and A15, yet he thinks A15 can run a 64 bit code.
Just..wow.

Oh and Cyclone is absolutely not resembling the A53, that is laughable.
Even the A57 is much simpler architecture than the Cyclone.
Cyclone is a desktop-like architecture comparable to Core from Intel.
It has 6-wide design, and more than double the die size compared to any ARM Cortex core.
Hence, to be used in phones and tablets, it has to be heavily underclocked.

No Exynos is on par with the A7. Exynos is a marketing name for mostly stock ARM, since Samesung still doesn't have an ARM Architecture license. Repeat after me: The A7 Cyclone is the most powerful ARM processor on the planet. Smarter people than both of us have made this proclamation.

He's posted his list of must-haves for a new device on plenty of articles on PA. Basically he pulls every buzzword from technologies that are in early R&D stages and expects them to go into mass production right now.

The S5 owners will be mad of this for sure, Samsung released their flagship S5, then now they will be releasing a flag to their flagship S5 Prime. It's like a slap to the face of the S5 owners. How can you expect people to buy your flagship if you use this kind of flagship cycle?

It's different, Sony have a 6 month flagship cycle which is a bad strategy already but Samsung is even worse, they release another flagship after three months which is the first time I've seen from any manufacturer.

I don't think 6 months cycle is a bad strategy. That way they can always have the best specs available at that moment. Though if they want to keep that cycle they shouldn't let these delays happen. This really breaks the circle

If you bought an S5, then you got exactly what you paid for. If people are upset that better devices are released after theirs, that's a personal psychological problem. An S5 doesn't operate any better or worse because an F series is released.

Actually i suspended my Z2's pre order because i think my Z1 is still a pretty solid phone so i decided to wait for either this, G3 or Note 4. One thing that i really dont like about LG is the finish. I actually liked Samsung's S5 and N3's backs.

Taking this on a balanced view, the S5 Prime will appeal to higher-end consumers because of the "premium limited quantity" feeling. However, we should look at all sides of the competitors before we say which is best.

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